Brand new host, Dáithí O Se, will interview 32 Roses over two nights of live television when the International Rose of Tralee Selection will be broadcast from the Festival Dome on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 August on RTÉ One. A perennial favourite, consistently featuring in annual Top 10 lists of the most-watched television programmes in this country, last year a peak of 885,000 viewers tuned in to see Charmaine Kenny, a Trinity College graduate from Athy, Co Kildare, crowned as the 51st Rose of Tralee.